saul@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Saul Greenberg) (07/05/89)
The 1990 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '90)
"Empowering People" 1-5 April, Seattle, sponsored by the
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction.
-- A special call for participation by those involved in --
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
The SIGCHI '90 conference committee is encouraging people involved
in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) to participate in the CHI '90
Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems. While there are now
several specialized conferences and workshops in CSCW, SIGCHI is actively
promoting the awareness of CSCW in the general community.
Participation can be in the form of paper, video, demonstration, and
interactive poster submissions, as well as proposals for panels, tutorials,
workshops and special interest groups. Specific details of submissions
are provided in the SIGCHI Call for Participation.
1. Technical papers should address pertinent aspects of CSCW.
"Holistic" papers that provide breadth as well as depth are encouraged
as well, especially if they would be valuable to the general CHI '90
attendee.
Contact: John Whiteside (CSNET: whiteside.chi@xerox.com)
2. Successful CSCW panels will illuminate important aspects of contemporary
issues in CSCW. Given that both the Europeon and American CSCW
conference precedes CHI '90, there is ample opportunity for another
"Best of CSCW" panel.
Contact: John L. Bennet (CSNET: bennet@ibm.com BITNET: bennett@almva)
3. Video submissions should present innovative CSCW systems and studies
that capture the flavour and the possibilities of computer-
supported collaborations. Considering the difficulty of verbally
describing and demonstrating CSCW systems, a video submission may be
an excellent way to present your work to the CHI community.
Contact: Brad A. Myers (CSNET: Brad.Myers@cs.cmu.edu)
4. Interactive Posters can presenting work in progress, lessons
learnt, findings of limited scope, and so on. Posters are a
particularly suitable way for a practicioner to meet with other
interested parties in CSCW through one on one discussions. We encourage
the use of short videos during the presentation to illustrate
the dynamic aspects of computer-supported work. This is where
you can put those videos that do not quite stand by themselves to use.
Contact: Joseph W. Sullivan (BITNET: Lockheed@polya.stanford.edu)
5. Workshops and Special Interest Groups
Successful workshops and SIGS will focus on particular technical
interests in CSCW, perhaps ranging from implemenation issues, to design
methodologies, to particular areas such as face-to-face meeting rooms.
Since CHI is very well attended, your workshop/SIG stands a good chance
of attracting the top people in your area.
Contact: John Thomas (CSNET: thomas@nynexst.com)
6. Tutorials
Surprisingly, there have been no tutorials on CSCW at CHI. A good
CSCW tutorial for the non-specialist will provide an overview that
introduces and surveys the major work in CSCW. Tutorial submissions
for advanced topics in CSCW are also encouraged.
Contact: Wendy A. Kellogg (CSNET: kellogg@ibm.com)
7. Demonstrations
Live demonstrations of CSCW systems are an effective way of introducing
your work to an audience in a theatre or continuous presentation booth.
Although the technical difficulties of demonstrating CSCW systems are
usually higher than with single-person systems, the extra effort is
often well worth the rewards gained by a public showing.
Contact: Cathie Norris (cnorris@untvax.edu)
DEADLINES
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Tutorials: July 11, 1989
Papers, panels, worshops: September 22, 1989
Posters, SIGS, demonstrations, videos: January 9, 1990
SHOULD YOU SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO SIGCHI, EC-CSCW, OR CSCW?
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CHI is not competing with the other specialized CSCW conferences. Rather,
the SIGCHI committee recognizes the need to pass on CSCW work to the general
CHI community at large. SIGCHI also recognizes that there are a distressingly
small number of openings for high quality CSCW submissions. For example,
of the 120 papers submitted to CSCW '88, only 30 acceptance slots were
available.
While SIGCHI does not support multiple submissions, the alternate forms of
presentation available may encourage you to (say) submit a technical paper
at CSCW, and a video of the working system to CHI. If you are not sure which
would be the best venue, consider which audience would better receive your
work.
For further information
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Saul Greenberg is the Technical Area Coordinator for CSCW at
SIGCHI '90. He will be pleased to answer any questions you have.
Contact:
Saul Greenberg
Advanced Technologies,
Alberta Research Council
6815 -- 8 St NE
Calgary, Alberta
CANADA T2E 7H7
Phone: (403) 297-2674
Email: saul@noah.arc.cdn
Email alternate: greenberg.chi@xerox.com
Email alternate: saul%noah.arc.cdn@relay.ubc.ca
Copies of the full Call for Participation may be obtained from:
Toni MacHaffie
CHI '90 Conference
P. O. Box 5847
Beaverton, OR 97006
WK: 503-591-1981
FAX: 503-627-5502
CSNET: tonimc@tekirl.labs.tek.comrolf@dna.lth.se (Rolf Karlsson) (07/15/89)
Preliminary Announcement Second Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 90) Bergen, Norway, July 9-12, 1990 The workshop, which continues the tradition of SWAT 88 and WADS 89, is intended as a forum for researchers in the area of design and analysis of algorithms. We invite submissions of papers presenting original research on algorithms and data structures, in all areas, including combinatorics, computational geometry, parallel computing, and graph theory. Contributors should send 5 hard copies of a full paper (not exceeding 12 pages) to John R. Gilbert Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, California 94304 Fax: +1-415-494-4471 Email: gilbert.pa@xerox.com Submissions must arrive at PARC by February 15, 1990, by mail or fax. Because of the tight schedule, papers received after February 15 will not be considered for the workshop. Contributors for whom access to a copying machine is difficult may submit only one copy. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be given by April 1, 1990. The final versions of accepted papers must arrive in camera-ready form before April 25, 1990. Proceedings will be published, possibly in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Invited Speakers (not inclusive): Juris Hartmanis (Cornell University), David Johnson (AT&T Bell Labs). Program Committee: Svante Carlsson (Lund University), John Gilbert (Xerox PARC and University of Bergen), Johan Hastad (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm), Thomas Lengauer (University of Paderborn), Andrzej Lingas (Lund University), Olli Nevalainen (University of Turku), Andrzej Proskurowski (University of Oregon), Joerg Sack (Carleton University), Raimund Seidel (University of California, Berkeley), Jeffrey Vitter (Brown University). Organizing Committee: Bengt Aspvall (University of Bergen), Hjalmtyr Hafsteinsson (University of Iceland), Rolf Karlsson (Lund University), Erik M. Schmidt (University of Aarhus), Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki). For more information, contact Bengt Aspvall Institutt for Informatikk University of Bergen N-5006 Bergen, Norway Tel: +47-5-544156 Fax: +47-5-544199 Email: bengt@eik.ii.uib.no